Category Archives: fashion

You Bet I Would # 13 / A 2fer.

February 1, 2012 – 6:10 am

Stunning Keira Knightley by Norman Jean Roy for GQ March 2012, styled by Sascha Lilic in a Yves Saint Laurent jumpsuit and a pair of Gucci heels. Stunning Keira Knightley by Norman Jean Roy for GQ March 2012, styled by Sascha Lilic in Maison Martin Margiela jacket and Gucci shorts

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The Debt Of A Nation

January 25, 2012 – 6:08 am

When Madame Ambassador had phoned with the offer to be her ‘unofficial writer in residence’ at her posting in Mittel Europa, she had asked, “Do you have an evening suit?” “Of course,” I replied without hesitation from my apartment in Fort Greene. “Good, because you’ll be needing it. There will be plenty of balls and [...]

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Quelle Cad

January 3, 2012 – 3:40 am

“If I could get back my youth, I’d do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.” Lord Henry Wooten from THE PORTRAIT OF DORIAN GREY

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Pattaya Always Pattaya

June 22, 2011 – 7:24 pm

Back in the 1970s Miami Beach was a neglected beach resort populated by ancient retirees in moldy art-deco apartment buildings. Elderly snowbird males dine at Wolfie’s Deli sporting Sta-press shirts, plaid trousers, and gleaming white shoes. Attired in their polyster finery these septagenarians trolled Miami Beach for blue-haired widows with a little extra income. The [...]

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NINES by Peter Nolan Smith

April 25, 2011 – 7:59 pm

Easter was a special holiday for our family. My mother was a devout Catholic. My father had converted from agnosticism to marry his Irish bride. The Bowdoin College grad was a good dresser and they attired their six children, as if we were the jewels of empire. Every Easter we wore new clothes from tie [...]

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